What is the difference between a freshman and a sophomore? What exactly is a dean? In this lesson, I will teach you words to describe different people you will encounter in college and university. These words are very important to know if you plan to go to university or if you are taking the IELTS or TOEFL. You will learn vocabulary like junior, senior, TA, RA, grad, undergrad, prof, and many more. After watching the video, come take my quiz to see how much you learned from the lesson.

332 Comments on “Learn English Vocabulary: The people you will meet at UNIVERSITY”

Hi Emma,
Thank you so much for all your class since you are definitely good teacher.When ı discover this site firt o all ı watched almost all your courses after that ı sarted watched another teacher’s courses.By the way ı got one hundred percent on test also ı am a UN. student.I am looking forward to your next courses Thanks all…

Hello Emma,
thank you for this lesson, which will help all of us to better understand circumstances at university. Could you or one of the other teachers do something similarly enlightening on court room vocabulary? The news are always full of it.
Thanx.

Thank Emma for your useful lesson.
Could you please help me this question?
I am an undergrad, my major is organic chemistry belonging to faculty of chemical engineering. So after graduating from university, what kind of degree will I get? It is not a bachelor degree. I mean, is it etheir a engineer degree, engineering degree or anything else? I have no idea about that.
Thank you so much!
Best wishes to you!

Hi Emma,nice to see you again.
when I see you on Engvid with a new lesson,I can’t really click the another bottom-it’s not depends on me,your teaching style,topics,pronunciation -all of them are so understandable and clearly.
I got 10 correct out of 10.
Although I had already graduated my Uni,but it’s useful and important to speak with people in a conversation.
And EMMA if you gave me any chance to keep in touch with,I would be so happy person in the world.
I like and love you :)

Thank you, Emma. I was looking forward to this lesson, and I learn a lot from your video lessons. We are so lucky having a teacher like you. You are an expert in your job. By the way, I am a master’s student on linguistics.

Emma, I have a question. If I’m a master’s student and you know most of masters consist of two-year study. And I want to say in what grade I am. Is that the same with a bachelor’s degree? I mean how do we call the first and second year of our master’s study? Waiting for your reply soon. Thank you in advance.

excuse me ,i have two questions which is not realated to this subject , but i love to share them with you .
(thats sucks and just do it) what do them mean ? somtimes i hear these slangs and i cannot find out their meaning. i will be gratefull if you help me .

Wednesday, September 2nd 2015

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if i may to answer your question ! that sucks means that what you are talking about is something you really hate and find disgusting or abhorrant but you are supposed to do it though

Hi Emma and everyone, I’m from Vietnam, I have been learning English many years but now, i can’t speak English well, I like E, I like Emma’s voice and the way she teachs E as well. I really want to make friend with everyone around the world, so we can improve our English and I can learn more about your country. My skype: lien.trinh16
My facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lien.trinh1605
Thank you for your lesson, Emma

hi Emma. firstly, thanks for your great attempts to explain precisely. your choices are so innovative and helpful. Second, i was wondering if you can help us with some expressions in university. ’cause i’m applying to RWTH Aachen which fortunately is an English speaking university.

thank you emma very useful , but I HAVE A REQUEST I WOULD LIKE IF YOU WETHER YOU OR OTHER TEACHERS SIMILAR LESSONS BUT FOR HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXAMPLE DIFFERETNS CLASS , NAMES OF THE BLOCS , MARKS ,lockers , a bit of all thanks

Hi Emma,
Thank you so much for all your class since you are definitely good teacher.When ı discover this site first o all ı watched almost all your courses after that ı started watched another teacher’s courses.By the way ı am a University student.I am looking forward to your next courses Thanks all…

Hello my dear teacher Emma.
first of all, thanks you very much for this lesson, and then I also saw your lesson ” Gendre Inclusive Language”, and my question is:
We can replace freshman with first- year student.

I really enjoyed your course. I had no idea about the American uni structure till you explainate it by this lesson which I found it very useful. Now l can make the difference and compare between algerian uni graduation and the other colleges or universities.

Hi emma and everyone. I am from Turkey. It is very important topic and comprehensible. By the way, I could understand almost all the words You are definitely good teacher. I’m a PhD student. My aim is to be Dean in the uni. Also, I realize improving my english day by day.Quiz was a piece of cake:)

In this lesson, Emma is teaching really useful words and concepts about position in the Uni. Freshman, sophomore, junior and senior are categories to describe in a very easy and fast way your current position when you are an undergrad student. After that, maybe, you would like to continue on the Uni as a master student. In this position, you can get a teaching and/or research assistant position. Finally, if you really like to continue in the educational pyramid power of university system, you could be a professor after you get a Ph.D., and so on until become a Dean, the top position. Thanks, Emma.

Hey Emma, I have two questions:
1-I work in University in morocco, In the administration, I take care of the IT stuff like the website, sometimes I participate in exams organization and registration. So what my job called?
2-I get confused about post doc, Is he got his doctorate or not?
Thank you so much
Morad

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